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CICS Transaction Server for z/OS

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CICS Web services using WMQ transport

Customer wants to be able to use WMQ transport for their CICS Web services fire and forget implementation
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Default processing for favicon.ico

Currently if a browser makes a request for favicon.ico then CICS will issue message DFHWB0730 to indicate web attach processing has encountered an internal error. Also a dump is produced for DFHWB0002 A00CPN A severe error (code X'0505') Customer ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Excessive spurious dumps in CICS

CICS produces an AP0001 dump for exceptions that Language Environment allows a retry operation. These exceptions are treated as non-errors in LE yet they are recorded in CICS and dumps are produced. Excesive abend processingin CICS and dump will c...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enable specification of proxy for outbound TCP/IP connections (GSE requirement GGCIC10003)

For outbound TCP/IP connections, i.e. web services or http-connections in most companies a firewall/proxy restricts access to external services. To specify a firewall/proxy in the current implementation an XWBOPEN-exit is needed. Solution does not...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs method to change password

Unable to change expired password when using CICS Explorer. A message is issued at the bottom of the window that the password is expired:"IZE0106E Connect failed with error "Password expired" (Winmvs A0 RW)" (Data in brackets is the name of the co...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

DFHIR3785 CSNC abended

With current design, when message DFHIR3785 is issued, CSNC is abnormally terminated with a system dump. All tasks using MRO links to other systems are abnormally terminated. CICS also abends all tasks in other CICS regions that are currently comm...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Test Message facility

CICS message DFHFC0952 and other messages can vary in length depending on the length of its variable data. The variable data in DFHFC0952 is the "APPLID" and the "file name". When a customers APPLID or file name differ by one character than the DF...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CFDT 16 bytes key limitation

The Coupling Facility Data Tables suffer the 16 byte key limitation for Coupling Facility architecture reason. That makes this facility of a poor interest at many sites for legacy applications, the VSAM key being usually larger than 16 bytes. To c...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Specify Mirror transid when MQ Bridge DPLs

The customer would like the option to code TRANSID parameter within MQCIH to cause CICS to attach the mirror transaction under a different transaction id other than CSMI
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve doc about dealing wiht Java problems

Client feedback indicates that there are an increasing number of additional traces and logs beyond the three JVM server output files. It would be useful to have a summary of how to turn on ALL the various diagnostic options. - Would like to see mo...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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